Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:13:16 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Skip tsc synchronization checks if CONSTANT_TSC bit is set. |
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> > Adding it with vmware detection code is not useful. > > The VMware detection code is something that's needed anyways for other > purposes(getting tsc_freq right now). So the code which force sets this > TSC_CONSTANT bit is trivial.
It would be better to eliminate that too. Why do you need it anyways?
> Apart from that, as i said yesterday, this should be viewed as a special > case for VMware products which don't already set this bit. Changing the > behavior for already existing products is not feasible.
On old hypervisors Linux already runs fine without TSC, doesn't it?
-Andi
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